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If you have a TypePad blog and want to add/embed a YouTube video into a post, you're going to have to do a bit of under-the-hood work. Don't worry! It's not as tough as it sounds. Here's the step-by-step process of embedding a YouTube video into a TypePad blog, even if the YouTube video is too wide.

If this were a car race, TypePad would now be seeing WordPress’s taillights; Automattic’s creation just passed its competitor in terms of traffic.

I had a client recently ask me about a blog that was using TypePad’s domain mapping feature and it was causing duplicate homepage URLs for the blog.

If you are already a Movable Type or HTML expert, this post is not for you.  But many fellow bloggers who are Typepad users (but not programming saavy) asked how I created my Social Media Bio and how they might do the same.  For all of you that asked, here is how I hacked mine together - using a bare minimum of coding knowledge and mostly using the tools that already exist within Typepad:

Have been doing some development work for a business blogging customer of ours, and again need to send out mad props (that's what the kids these days say, right?) to John T. Unger and his Typepad Hacks site.

A welcome sight for every TypePad customer - you can access the TypePad service again and you can update your blog to reflect accurate content.

As many TypePad users know, the hosted blog service has been a literal nightmare to use in recent months.

TypePad seems to creaking under the strain of its own success. For some weeks now, I've been observing (and experiencing) constant server timeout problems when posting to this blog.